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Finally. After years as frustration, my site is finally back into the support window! We went live with PDMLink 10.2 last week. Dealing with the normal questions and bugs but I am back. You will be seeing a lot more of me online.  Boy, do we have our work cut out for us.  Looking back, most of my customizations carried forward without too much tweaking.  BOM and EC summary reports are now more inline with current standards but we still dealing with struggles making them "printable".  Aside from that, I am happy my workflows are functioning like they did but it might not be for long.  My site is now thinking big and more advanced concepts of change and BOM management. Lots of modules and business process still to fold into this sytsem.   As for the new community site, I will withhold judgement. Did we lose our "Twitter" like status feature? I liked that.  I will also try to be active on my second account blog. Wait. What? Did they delete my blog? Grrrr

Unleash the power of PTC System monitor - Use Windchill Performance Advisor to see high level overview of Windchill health and drill down from there.    Newly Introduced Feature Overview gadget captures important parameters for selected time period.     Learn which Windchill functionality is most used by your users     Check Average response time across all Windchill functions     Drill through Details page and learn more per each category     Also, introducing Guided Help – an elegant way to explore Windchill Performance Advisor functionality through step-by-step conversational process guiding you through your own interface.     Take advantage of these capabilities today by opting in to Windchill Performance Advisor service. Prerequisites for Feature Usage Gadget: Windchill 10.2 M020 or higher PTC System Monitor Release 5.0 or higher Windchill Performance Advisor Agent Install and configure Windchill Performance Advisor

Hi,In Windchill PDMLink 10.1, in 2 different workspaces when I erase a folder (empty) , it re-appears when I re-login. Why ?Thanks for your help.Did

I am investigating removing access to Creo Parametric drawings for some users, regardless of state, and still give them access to assemblies and CAD parts. I was thinking the Document Category attribute could be used but it isn't available in the policy, which can only be configured by domain, context, type, state and participant. Could I somehow create a CAD Doc sub-type that are only drawings? I also looked at profiles to hide them but didn't see a way to use it for this purpose. Other ideas?

Good day everyone, This is a suggestion from @TomU and I believe a great opportunity. What are your thoughts of his ideas? Best, Toby   "Creo" and "Windchill" are way to broad and span way to many, completely unrelated products.  The current setup causes lots of confusion (Creo Parametric vs. Creo Direct and PDMLink vs. WPA).  I would strongly suggest that the top level categories align with the broader PTC product areas. Creo CAD Creo Simulate Creo View Integrity Servigistics Thingworx Windchill PDM & Process Windchill Quality   At the next level down, break out into the more popular/common products.  Again, users come to the community to interact about a product.  I think it's very important that the community reflect this reality (and help get content in the right area.)  For example: Creo CAD Creo Layout Creo Illustrate Creo Options Modeler Creo Parametric Other Extensions Windchill PDM & Process Windchill Fle

Hello - I am having trouble getting my team permissions to a folder. All members of the team are set to designers but they are not able to check in, check out or add new files to the folder. When they try the get an error message that says they do not have permissions. We have other team folders that I have set them to Designers and there are no issues. Any Help would be great. Thanks.

Hello All,  Is there a way to change the revision number of a Windchill document upon approval? For example the regular revision order is A.1, A.2, A.3 ect ect, but say the document was approved after revision A.2. Is there a way for the revision to jump to B.1 after approval? So the revision number order would be A.1, A.2, B.1, B.2 until the next round of approvals. We are tyring to devise a system to easily separate major and minor revisions of a document. Thank you! 

We are getting error in schema creation while installing windchill 10.2    

Hello,Having some issues with Windchill Log files being generated repeatedly every minute.I have a call into PTC but they have not responded with anything that resolved the issue?  Would you have any suggestions?  ===========================================================================================  2017-04-03 09:40:49,625 INFO  [main] wt.server.manager.startup - Creating wt.manager.jmx.Startup  2017-04-03 09:40:49,625 INFO  [BackgroundMethodServerMonitor] wt.server.manager.startup - Starting 1 BackgroundMethodServer instance  2017-04-03 09:40:49,625 INFO  [MethodServerMonitor] wt.server.manager.startup - Starting 3 MethodServer instances  2017-04-03 09:40:49,640 ERROR [RMI TCP Connection(3)-10.3.50.172] wt.cache.server.wt.cache.MasterCacheMonitor - caught cache server call exceptionjava.rmi.RemoteException: Unable to register slave cache; nested exception is:   java.lang.SecurityException: Access denied  at wt.cache.Remot

Hello!I'm trying to delete a team template using below code:PersistenceHelper.manager.delete(teamTemplateReference.getObject()This produces the below stacktrace:(wt.team.teamResource/26) wt.team.TeamException: The MyTeam team template is in use.  All uses must be removed before the MyTeam team template can be deleted.wt.team.StandardTeamService$1.notifyVetoableEvent(StandardTeamService.java:307)wt.events.StandardKeyedEventBranch.intDispatchEvent(StandardKeyedEventBranch.java:312)wt.events.StandardKeyedEventBranch.dispatchVetoableMultiObjectEvent(StandardKeyedEventBranch.java:263)wt.events.StandardKeyedEventDispatcher.intDispatchEvent(StandardKeyedEventDispatcher.java:288)...This exception does not give any cluses what is using the template but apperntly Windchill seems to know that it is used.Does anyone know if there is an API to find out uses of a team template?I have a feeling there is a generic way to do this...Thanks and best regards,Peter

I am tyring to change the data type of a few attributes from "string" to "integer". We are using Creo 3.0 and Intralink 11 (if that matters).  I have logged in as the administrator and looked through the "type and attribute management", but I cannot figure out how to edit the attribute type. Under the data type it says "java.lang.String". When I click edit under actions, it doesn't give the option to change it. The option must be hidden in here somewhere...   And it isn't editable from the relation window in Creo, but is designated and set as user-defined. Any ideas?

I browsed xml file from tasks folder I want to execute it. But it is asking for inputs like supporting adapter and object for an Create.xml file. what are these and how to execute the file..??

I'm having trouble publishing Vector pdf from a figure authored in creo illustrate as c3di file. Inservice is publishing the 3D IPD but the arbortext publishing engine publishes pdf only with the screen captured raster figure and not as vector illustration.I'm using Windchill 10.2 M032 CPS10. with SIM for S1000D 10.2, and Service Parts also 10.2SIM S1000D & PE has no vector publishing from c3di file?Thanks,John.

I am trying to run modeler.bat file present  in the taskeditor but I am unable to execute it the following lines are present in it.   set JAVA_HOME=<wt.jdk> set WEB_INF=C:/ptc/Windchill_11.0/Windchill/codebase/WEB-INF set MODELER_HOME=%WEB_INF%/../../taskeditor set CLASSPATH=%WEB_INF%/../;%MODELER_HOME%;%WEB_INF%/lib/ieWeb.jar;%WEB_INF%/lib/jmxcoreWeb.jar;%WEB_INF%/lib/ie3rdpartylibs.jar;%WEB_INF%/../../lib/servlet.jar;%WEB_INF%/lib/mail.jar;%WEB_INF%/lib/activation.jar;%WEB_INF%/lib/install.jar;%WEB_INF%/lib/wncWeb.jar start %JAVA_HOME%\bin\javaw com.infoengine.modeler.UI.IEModeler -web_inf "%WEB_INF%"   regards, madhu

How do we display Change Task in a Folder View? The Default "Change Objects" does not display Task. I do not see an option to include Change Task in a customized View. V11 M020 Cheers.

In our company the Deviation process is a Quality owned process.  Prior to implementing Deviation, we have implemented Nonconformance and have Quality Libraries.  I would like to limit the creation of Deviations to only Quality Libraries (which would force them into using the Changes tab of Browse to even see them, but we can cover that in training).   My question, assuming I figure out how to limit the creation of Deviations to just Quality Libraries (all the while managing ACLs at the Org level), how do I get "Create Variance" added to the Quality Action Links on the Homepage?

We have a problem inside a company. User tries to promote a dreawing of certain model, but for some reasons windchill downloads not only model and all subassemblies into workspace, but also two unrelated items, on a state which does not allow promotion (let's say final, unrecoverable state, which cannot be promoted). Due to these two items, the item cannot be promoted.   The problem is - for what I know these two items are COMPLETELY unrelated to neither drawing nor assembly. Creo reference viewer does not show any relations, the same with PDM Link, related to, relations, references, referenced by. The models seem to be completely separate and not connected to the mentioned assembly, however they are still downloaded into workspace along with it, and prevent it from promotion.   Oh and here comes the funny part. I downloaded all of the workspace into HDD and I manually deleted the two mentioned models - No error. Creo reloads everything in the basically flawless way, model re

Dear WC GURUS,   How to Open .prt or .ASM existing WIndchill file in WGM Solidworks in solidworks2016, Any suggestions or need to follow any specific process. (Getting this error : Failed to open in SolidWorks 2016: lp-tm-p-test-clamp-115.prt. <C:\Users\eb010956\Documents\PTC Places\Workspace\lp-tm-p-test-clamp-115.prt> does not exist. ) All open suggestion are welcome. Regards,RAHUL

Hi Everyone, I'm an intern at a large company who is very new to Windchill. I've been tasked to "audit" Product PRs, CRs, and CNs with the end goal of understanding which ones conform to our specific Global Change Process and which ones are leaving things out. For example, I'd like to be able to generate a list of recent Problem Reports and then have the ability to look at a individual report and verify if the user added a Number, Name, Requestor, Problem Category, etc etc. when they generated a problem report. Any suggestions or better ways to go about this would be greatly appriciated. Thanks.

Hi. Does anyone know how to add my custom applications on the interface of PTC Navigate? I tried something, but it doesn't work at all. I attached an imagen of the result.  

Hi everyone,   I have a problem with my custom action validators. I created some custom actions and attached custom validators to them. I extend the DefaultUIComponentValidator class and override the preValidateAction function. The possible results based on the verifications are DENIED or ENABLED. However when I log in with a user that is not added to any organization (Site level user) and added as Member to a product, I don't see the action. Using jcaDebug it tells me that the action is HIDDEN by my validator. How is this possible? I don't set it to HIDDEN in any case. This is only happening if the user is not added to any organization.   Thx in advance for suggestions! BR, Tamás

We require that authors of Change Requests populate the Change Review board (CRB). As most users submit CR's to the same people every time, its helpful for those users to Copy a list of users from a role from one CR into anther.  The users in the same role in M010 can do this, but for some reason the users in M020 cannot do this. They do not see the icons for paste. They do see copy.   I have checked the Configuration Actions for Roles and do not see anthing obvious that would hide the paste icon. I have also checked the Access Policy - again nothing that would hide the action. I am using the same CR workflow and Team. This is what the CR author users see: Those same CR authors can edit the CR and they can edit the team on the task to submit the CR:

Hi all,is there a way to get the currently logged in user from javascript? I want to validate the promotion approvers table, so that the user didn't select himself. I added a new afterJS method to the workflowParticipantsStep where I can get the table with the principals but I have to get the the logged in user somehow.Thx,Tamás

Good day all, I am pleased to announce a new Working Group Windchill Reporting Working Group   PTC is planning updates to Windchill reporting. This group will help to provide inputs into that process in the form of: Use of existing out-of-the-box reports Use of Windchill Business Reporting (Cognos) Inputs on preferred company BI tools Current and planned custom reports   Participants should be existing Windchill users with experience of using and/or building reports in Windchill Working Group Duration: 12 months Working Group Max Size: 20 Group Leaders: Jeff Zemsky and Graham Birch PTC   Please contact the Group leaders with specific questions and to learn more. Best, Toby

Hi All,   I come to retrive all the document structure and their name associated with operation in plan. But how to fetch it using java code in windchill 11?